> One of the best things about notepad is that it can't access the internet.
True. Puts me in mind of the old saying (I think originally applicable to MIT) that "every program expands until it gains the ability to read mail". The GNU "hello world" app, of course, is a prime example.
Okay, let's get a real thread started here. Since ST:TMP already has an alternative subtitle, I've been thinking about what would be good for the other ones. Here's what I've got so far.
Star Trek: The Motionless Picture
Star Trek II: Quien Es Mas Macho, Guillermo Shatner o Ricardo Montalban?
Star Trek IV: Songs of the Humpback Whale
Star Trek V: For the Love of God, Why?
Anyone have ideas for III and VI?
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I think it's only for Google's tracking purposes. If you eliminate the alphanumeric code and one of the colons on either side--leaving only
I have one, and in a lot of ways it's a neat toy. But using it for real work is nearly impossible, partly because of the ridiculous region-context-dependent handwriting recognition, and partly because it is slow, slow, slow.
It's really too bad that they decided to run X on it--not that I have any hard data, but I suspect the performance would be a lot better if they'd used something like GtkFB.
> Consider yourself lucky, it was easy enough to generate a general protection fault.
In DOS? Um, with all due respect, no.
DOS didn't take advantage of any of the facilities that the 80286 and later processors provided for multiuser operating systems. There was no concept of rings, or of kernel code having a greater privilege level than user code. So you'd never get anything as helpful as a GPF or SEGV.
It was incredibly easy to get DOS to crash, but that was something that usually happened as a result of some errant user program scribbling on the global interrupt vector starting at 0000:0000, which would generally just leave you completely hosed until you did a hard reset. Ah, DOS. How I don't miss you.
It's been churning out tasty hot coffee for the office for years, at both my last (failed) startup and my current one--the same unit, not just the same model. My best guess is that it's made upwards of 800 pots, and it works just as well as when it was brand new.
I think it's cheaper than an equivalent Krups, at least in the US. Downside is its small capacity--it uses #2 cone filters and only makes 8 cups. But it's so good.
My current company was founded by an engineer, and this experience here is very rewarding. We do, however, have a marketing department that, at times, tries to tell us engineers what to do. This hardly goes over well...
Yep. I've found that I can do a lot of pre-screening by using the words "engineering-driven" in my resume's description of what sort of organisation I'd like to work for. When recruiters ask what that means, I tell them that high-scoring companies generally:
Have a high proportion of headcount in engineering.
Have a CTO with a lot of de facto power--ideally a founder.
Have marketing and biz-dev organisations that demonstrate a deep understanding of the relevant technologies.
Keep the hiring/interview process for engineers within the engineering department as much as possible, with the bulk of the interviews given by midlevel-to-senior peers.
That paints a reasonably accurate picture of most of the companies I've worked for in the last five years. Some of those have succeeded and some haven't--but the ones that failed didn't fail because of technological insufficiency. If you value individual and collective self-respect, that's an important thing.
If the MBA has 5+ years of experience as a programmer, then the answer is "yes."
I can't speak to the business-degree thing specifically, but I've been coding for over ten years, and managed engineering teams of a dozen-plus at several different companies. I can tell you that the respect I got from "my" programmers was significantly more than was accorded to people in my position who didn't have that sort of time in the trenches.
In the interest of completeness (and Six Degrees Of GLS)....I feel compelled to mention that the above-named Guy Steele Jr. is one of the two creators of the Scheme programming language, which is a stripped-down, not to mention nifty and useful, Lisp variant.
Well, he died at Cedars-Sinai in LA, but lived in Incline Village (near Tahoe), Nevada. An FOIA request should be able to get you the death certificate, which might include details of interment. Hope I've given you some helpful starting points--cheers.
Commercial audio tracks also tend to make heavy use of compression, so even though they stay within the peak-to-peak levels established by the FCC, the RMS amplitude of the signal is much greater than it would be if uncompressed.
Actually, I thought of George Saunders (CivilWarLand In Bad Decline) more than I thought of either Orwell or Dickens. The capitalization of things like "Health" and "Wrap" seemed particularly pomo in that weird sad Saunders way.
Second, making it enforceable would be a real challenge as opposed to NDAs that concern personal conduct (like the ones celebrities make their household help sign) or intellectual property.
Third, part of the point of the article is that these people are perceived as completely fungible. It would have been simple to change the names of all the other reps (sorry, "supervisors") and publish the piece under a pseudonym anyway.
Jesse and I thought we came up with the FHF in a cough-syrup-induced reverie in 1994. We were extremely pissed to find out someone had beaten us to it. Weirder still that it was someone you knew. Pretty funny, dude.
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> One of the best things about notepad is that it can't access the internet.
True. Puts me in mind of the old saying (I think originally applicable to MIT) that "every program expands until it gains the ability to read mail". The GNU "hello world" app, of course, is a prime example.
- Star Trek: The Motionless Picture
- Star Trek II: Quien Es Mas Macho, Guillermo Shatner o Ricardo Montalban?
- Star Trek IV: Songs of the Humpback Whale
- Star Trek V: For the Love of God, Why?
Anyone have ideas for III and VI?And the Agenda isn't slow?
I have one, and in a lot of ways it's a neat toy. But using it for real work is nearly impossible, partly because of the ridiculous region-context-dependent handwriting recognition, and partly because it is slow, slow, slow.
It's really too bad that they decided to run X on it--not that I have any hard data, but I suspect the performance would be a lot better if they'd used something like GtkFB.
> Consider yourself lucky, it was easy enough to generate a general protection fault.
In DOS? Um, with all due respect, no.
DOS didn't take advantage of any of the facilities that the 80286 and later processors provided for multiuser operating systems. There was no concept of rings, or of kernel code having a greater privilege level than user code. So you'd never get anything as helpful as a GPF or SEGV.
It was incredibly easy to get DOS to crash, but that was something that usually happened as a result of some errant user program scribbling on the global interrupt vector starting at 0000:0000, which would generally just leave you completely hosed until you did a hard reset. Ah, DOS. How I don't miss you.
Actually, there's a Rival coffeemaker with (fancy-looking mirrored) thermal carafe that I absolutely love.
It's been churning out tasty hot coffee for the office for years, at both my last (failed) startup and my current one--the same unit, not just the same model. My best guess is that it's made upwards of 800 pots, and it works just as well as when it was brand new.
I think it's cheaper than an equivalent Krups, at least in the US. Downside is its small capacity--it uses #2 cone filters and only makes 8 cups. But it's so good.
I'd like to see this bot go up against GraffitiWriter.
"A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." (Frank Rizzo)
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested." (Tom Wolfe)
It was a joke I first heard from a Russian friend in the 80s. I've seen it a couple times since, but never found an original source.
Or, as the old saw has it, "Capitalism is all about man's exploitation of man. Communism is the other way round."
- Have a high proportion of headcount in engineering.
- Have a CTO with a lot of de facto power--ideally a founder.
- Have marketing and biz-dev organisations that demonstrate a deep understanding of the relevant technologies.
- Keep the hiring/interview process for engineers within the engineering department as much as possible, with the bulk of the interviews given by midlevel-to-senior peers.
That paints a reasonably accurate picture of most of the companies I've worked for in the last five years. Some of those have succeeded and some haven't--but the ones that failed didn't fail because of technological insufficiency. If you value individual and collective self-respect, that's an important thing.If the MBA has 5+ years of experience as a programmer, then the answer is "yes."
I can't speak to the business-degree thing specifically, but I've been coding for over ten years, and managed engineering teams of a dozen-plus at several different companies. I can tell you that the respect I got from "my" programmers was significantly more than was accorded to people in my position who didn't have that sort of time in the trenches.
How do you reconcile these statements?
Are you suggesting that pronouns can be overloaded gender-specific/gender-neutral, whereas nouns such as "actor" cannot?
Please explain yourself.
Pouring out a 40 of Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster for my homie.
Doug: Big up from y'all'z monkeyboy dawgz. Peace.
In the interest of completeness (and Six Degrees Of GLS)....I feel compelled to mention that the above-named Guy Steele Jr. is one of the two creators of the Scheme programming language, which is a stripped-down, not to mention nifty and useful, Lisp variant.
...but add my voice to the chorus cheering for curses. It's free, it's incredibly easy to understand, and support for it is never going away.
The O'Reilly minibook Programming with curses (which I used to think was a "Unix-Hater's Handbook"-style thing) is a great place to start. Good luck.
Well, he died at Cedars-Sinai in LA, but lived in Incline Village (near Tahoe), Nevada. An FOIA request should be able to get you the death certificate, which might include details of interment. Hope I've given you some helpful starting points--cheers.
Commercial audio tracks also tend to make heavy use of compression, so even though they stay within the peak-to-peak levels established by the FCC, the RMS amplitude of the signal is much greater than it would be if uncompressed.
Actually, I thought of George Saunders (CivilWarLand In Bad Decline) more than I thought of either Orwell or Dickens. The capitalization of things like "Health" and "Wrap" seemed particularly pomo in that weird sad Saunders way.
First, no one will sign that NDA.
Second, making it enforceable would be a real challenge as opposed to NDAs that concern personal conduct (like the ones celebrities make their household help sign) or intellectual property.
Third, part of the point of the article is that these people are perceived as completely fungible. It would have been simple to change the names of all the other reps (sorry, "supervisors") and publish the piece under a pseudonym anyway.
Nope. Check the Simpsons FAQ. (Search for the string "NRA4EVR".) The false rumor was actually planted in another episode.
Blue Man Group will have to get another member?
Wait a minute, that was your friend?
Jesse and I thought we came up with the FHF in a cough-syrup-induced reverie in 1994. We were extremely pissed to find out someone had beaten us to it. Weirder still that it was someone you knew. Pretty funny, dude.
You are wrong. The word "climatic" refers to climate, "climactic" to climax. Switching the usages is not acceptable.
See a dictionary, online or off, if you seek corroboration.
Fred: Amherst;
Daphne: Mt. Holyoke;
Velma: Smith;
Shaggy: Hampshire;
and of course, Scooby Doo himself is UMass.